How to tell when a package was last updated?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 08:20:57AM -0400, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Chris Green wrote:
> >Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> >> Chris Green wrote:
>  
> >>      Is there any way to see when apt (or dpkg below it) last
> >> updated a particular package?
>  
> >>    Yes. This web page offers some help on this:-
> >>    [2]https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-apt-get-aptitude-s
> >>    how-package-version-command/
> >>    Personally, with command line tools I use the --version option,
> >> where available.
> >>    For GUI stuff I look it up in Synaptic. There are command line
> >> options such as apt list.
>    
> >All those tell me is what version is installed now, it doesn't tell
> >me *when* it was installed which is what I want to know.  
> 
> These two files should give you that information:
> 
> /var/log/apt/history.log
> 
There's *very* little in this one, just the date of the *last* time I
ran apt and what was updated.  .... but of course there are rotated
log files which go back quite a while which I can search through.


> /var/log/dpkg.log
> 
As above, it's the older rotated log files I need to look at.

Thanks! :-)

-- 
Chris Green